HTML5 speech input API and Mozilla

Ken Saunders <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:17:08 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.accessibility
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Please tell me that Mozilla is working on this.

Google Chrome 11 hits beta with voice to text
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/03/google-chrome-11-hits-beta-wit.html

Talking to your computer (with HTML!)
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/03/talking-to-your-computer-with-html5.html

For disabled users, this is an obvious plus.
For all users (especially lazy ones), this will be appealing.
Massively and widely appealing.
Perhaps due to that fact, Mozilla will step things up and this won't
be looked at as just an accessibility matter.

Other links.
Speech Input API Specification
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2011Feb/att-0020/api-draft.html

Incubator Activity > W3C HTML Speech Incubator Group
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/

(Mozilla is a member)

Ken